Gunmen on motorcycles kill 7 villagers in Mali
Gunmen on motorcycles have killed seven people in attacks on two villages in central Mali, an area plagued by Takfiri attacks and intercommunal violence, a local mayor says.
The victims of Tuesday's raids were farmers from the Dogon community who were working their fields at the time, Ali Dolo, mayor of the rural Sangha area which covers the villages, said Wednesday.
He told AFP that the assailants were the same men who have attacked other villages in past months.
At least four other people were killed in June and another dozen in April in similar attacks in the Sangha area, which lies about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the town of Bandiagara.
Central Mali has witnessed a surge in violence since 2015 linked to a Takfiri insurgency and also deadly clashes between the ethnic communities of Fulani, nomadic herders, and Dogon traditional hunters.
(Source: AFP)
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